1st Edition
Making Muslim Women European Voluntary Associations, Gender, and Islam in Post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia (1878-1941)
By Fabio Giomi
Copyright 2021
420 Pages
by
Central European University Press
This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were... Read more
Lists of abbreviations, List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1. At the Margins of the Habsburg Civilizing Mission, Chapter 2. Domesticating the Muslim Woman Question, Chapter 3. Muslim, Female and Volunteer, Chapter 4. Calling for Change, Chapter 5. Putting Change into Practice, Chapter 6. A Taste for Celebration, Chapter 7. Unforeseen Consequences, Conclusions, Consulted Archives, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Fabio Giomi is CNRS Researcher at the Centre for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central-Asian Studies, Paris. Before joining CETOBaC in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation (Paris) and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University (Budapest). His research focuses on the history of South-East Europe between the end of the 19th century and the middle of the 20th century, with particular attention to the Yugoslav space.
